Langelo: Vegetable varieties recommended for the Plains

By Linda Langelo

CSU Extension associate

Posted:
04/15/2013 11:15:05 AM MDT

Gardening season is almost upon us. Over the last, several years the community gardens have planted a number of varieties in the Golden Plains Area. Extension is sharing our list of varieties with you. This list consists of the varieties that did the best for us and were reliable. There have been some reliable heirlooms and other reliable hybrids. However, we prefer to use the heirloom varieties wherever possible.

There are other varieties that we have tried that have not produced or performed well such as Brandywine Tomato. This tomato has not been reliable, but it has great taste as an heirloom. In 2010 it performed poorly, but in 2011 it performed well. Heirlooms are not always resistant to disease as are hybrids and weather conditions play a role in the success of a crop. In hybrids the taste is breed out of the vegetable to strengthen the plant for other things. Heirlooms have the best taste. If you have a variety of one of the crops listed that you would like to share with Extension, please let us know.

For the coming season of 2013 in all the area gardens there will be the following varieties:

Beets

•Early Wonder, Merlin

Bean

•Contender (Bush)

Cucumber

•Armenian Burpless

•Marketmore

Peas

•Sugar Snap

Pepper

•Habanero

Pumpkin

•Lumina

Radish

•Easter Egg Blend

Spinach

•New Zealand Spinach

Swiss Chard

•Bright Lights

Squash: Summer

•Black Beauty Zucchini, Early Prolific, Straightneck

Tomato

•Bush

Tomato (Pole)

•Red Siberian (Russian Heirloom)

Each garden adds plants a selection of flowers for decoration and cutting. Some of the gardens do corn, pumpkins, cantaloupe and watermelon and some do not. If you have not tried some of these varieties go ahead and do so.

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